Trump had reportedly been seen switching between three aircraft, which the Republican leader confirmed later.
US President Donald Trump recently switched out planes during a summit in Turkey due to a “threat”.
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Citing former officials familiar with the matter, the Washington Post added that it was Israel that relayed the threat to Trump’s life and called for the president to secretly fly out of the plane. “The Secret Service has had three near misses with this president, so they’re not taking any chances. Trump’s plane switch dates back to July 8, during the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey.
Amid the buzz of Trump’s plane switch, it was widely reported that the US President was prompted to switch planes due to “a credible threat from Iranian proxies.
The threat was real, but the Central Intelligence Agency deemed it”not compelling enough, according to a Washington Post report. The reports of an Iranian threat were seen as “Israel-derived, not US-generated and viewed as low confidence,” said an official, adding that this view was also relayed to Trump’s team. Despite the low confidence in the threat level, another US official said, referring to Trump’s previous assassination attempts, that the Secret Service did not want to take a chance. They did what they had to do,” the official told Washington Post.
